The What Is Stoicism? Podcast

"There is a need, in my view, for someone as a standard against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler to do it against you won’t make crooked straight.” - Seneca, Letters 11.10 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"As each day arises, welcome it as the very best day of all, and make it your own possession. We must seize what flees." - Seneca, Letters 108.27 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do that which is easiest of all—namely, demonstrate that what men call pleasures are punishments as soon as they have exceeded due bounds. — Seneca The Younger, On Drunkenness 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Stoic never beats themselves up. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Take the Stoic path and decide YOUR OWN worth. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Calming perspectives from Marcus Aurelius to relax, study, work or meditate to. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

☕ An energizing espresso shot of Stoicism inspired by Italian coffee culture. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“The reward for all the virtues lies in the virtues themselves, for they are not practiced with a view to recompense; the wages of a good deed is to have done it.” - Seneca, Epistles 81.19 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.47 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With awareness we can regain our innocence, we can feel the freedom of becoming like children. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How to start solving problems from within. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stoic reflections on empathizing. Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​ Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism​ Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How to stay on track with your Stoic goals. Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​ Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism​ Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A short introduction to the What Is Stoicism? Podcast. Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​ Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stoic reflections for when negative thoughts start to take over. Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​ Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism​ Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stoic reflections on removing ego and carrying water. Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​ Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism​ Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Calming music and thoughts from Marcus Aurelius to relax, study, work or meditate to. Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​ Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism​ Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicism Song: Venkatesananda Artist: Jesse Gallagher Album: Venkatesananda Licensed to YouTube by YouTube Audio Library Hosted on Acast. See acas...

Stoic reflections for when you're feeling burnt out. Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​ Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism​ Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stoic reflections on curing fear of the future in a practical way. Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​ Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism​ Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stoic reflections of gift giving. 🎁 Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​ Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism​ Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stoic relflections on self-discipline. “Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.” - Marcus Aurelius Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​ Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism​ Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...

Stoic relflections on your ideal life. “What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him." -- Viktor Frankl Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​ Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism​ Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...

Stoic reflections on morning motivation. “When the standards have been set, things are tested and weighed. And the work of philosophy is just this, to examine and uphold the standards, but the work of a truly good person is in using those standards when they know them.” -- Epictetus, Discourses 2.11.23 Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​ Instagram: htt...

Stoic reflections on being criticised and praised. “Everything in any way beautiful has its beauty of itself, inherent and self-sufficient: praise is no part of it. At any rate, praise does not make anything better or worse.” -- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.20 Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​ Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism​ Facebo...

Stoic reflections on doing. “So then practice and rehearse To find heart-soul’s universe, Knowing that by moving/seeing Proves for all time: Doing’s being!” - Doing is Being, Ray Bradbury Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​ Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism​ Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...